Geronimo1967
Veteran communist grand master Akiva (Michel Piccoli) is in Geneva for the world chess championships against lapsed Soviet Pavius (Alexander Arbatt) and its quite a grudge match. He wont even shake his opponents hand beforehand. Its fairly clear that this older man has health issues, but his adversary is not without his own problems as his wife - whom he didnt defect with - is now seeking a divorce and is soon a pawn of a different kind. With gamesmanship rife inside and outside the press-packed auditorium, this drama follows both men as it fills in some back story and tries to explain why the men are at a loggerheads - all amidst the politics of winning that was publicly crucial to both teams and their ideologies. If you remember the Spass...